M13 Regional Climate Variability and Change
Convener: Sumant Nigam (College Park, USA)
Co-convener: Adam Scaife (Exeter, U.K.)
Description
The symposium targets sub-continental regions exhibiting notable
warming (and cooling) since the 1970s, focusing on the detection,
attribution, and mechanisms of multi-decadal variability and change. The
symposium will bring together dynamically oriented observational
analysts and coupled modellers to advance attribution – multi-decadal
natural variability vs. anthropogenic influence (GHG, aerosols) – and
draw attention to the discrepancies in the observational and model based
assessments of regional multi-decadal climate variability and change.
Characterizing the dynamical and thermodynamical mechanisms governing
such variability/change in both nature and coupled models is an
important symposium goal; multi-decadal simulation and prediction
experiments are expected to provide mechanistic insights.
